Seth Quotes

We've greatly exaggerated the risk of sinking, without celebrating the value of swimming.

The purpose of an elevator pitch is to describe a situation or solution so compelling that the person you're with wants to hear more even after the elevator ride is over.

People watch what you do more than listen to what you say.

The world is begging for you to lead.

Marketing is about spreading ideas, and spreading ideas is the single most important output of our civilization.

Real content marketing isn’t repurposed advertising, it is making something worth talking about.

The essence of marketing today is to tell a story to people who want to hear it, in a way that resonates with them so they are likely to either respond or connect to you, or tell their friends.

Creating ideas that spread and connecting the disconnected are the two pillars of our new society, and both of them require the posture of the artist

Most people don't see that they have options beyond what society tells them to do. That's the biggest problem. They honestly believe that compliance is the shortcut to success.

Every voice doesn't matter--only the voices that move your idea forward, that make it better, that make you better, that make it more likely you will ship work that benefits your tribe.

It's never too late to redefine self-control, to change long-ingrained habits, and to do the work you're capable of.

I was a big Fred Flintstone fan.

We are too focused on avoiding criticism and not enough on making a difference.

You market when you hire and when you fire. You market when you call tech support, and you market every time you send a memo.

We may all deserve hell, but some of us deserve it sooner than others.

So long as this country is cursed with slavery, so too will it be cursed with vampires.

I remember, when I was an up-and-coming comic, how annoyed I would be when the famous guys would show up and just take everyone's spots.

You know, I can imagine not writing a novel and writing poetry only.

So I suggest you stick close, pay attention, and avoid breaking the Terrorverse's only commandment: Thou shall not be stupid.

Those books of mine that are remunerative - I'm not talking about poetry here - take years to write, and I am never sure they'll be successful. So writing is a risk in more senses than one.

Why do writers, say, give up a job in economics and decide to write poetry? Or, why do they give up a job in a bank and decide to paint, like Krishan Khanna? They want to convey something.

It's sad and upsetting when you see somebody crying hysterically, but at the same time it's real funny.

At the age of four, you were an artist. And at seven, you were a poet.

Leadership is about vision and responsibility, not power.

The current Babe Ruth of improv? Sacha Baron Cohen. He's pretty amazing.

believe that giving up is the same thing as being realistic.

Every single important thing we do is something we didn't use to be good at, and in fact, might be something we used to fear.

A favorite film of mine is 'Office Space' and I love 'The Hangover.' That is a really good comedy from character in that film, and that is true of 'Office Space' too.

But if you read Jane Austen, you know that she had a wicked sense of humor. Not only was she funny, but her early writing was very dark and had a gothic tone to it.

Denzel Washington has a great sense of humor. He did all those 'Nutty Professor' movies.

The good thing about L.A. is that there's always someone more famous 100 yards away from me.

We have little choice but to move beyond quality and seek remarkable, connected, and new. Remarkable, as you've already figured out, demands initiative.

There's no longer a monolithic evil empire somewhere, spreading a different philosophy of life. That doesn't exist.

I hereby resolve to kill every vampire in America.

I have a healthy amount of humility.

Some of the best ideas come sort of out of nowhere and when you're not expecting it.

I think unintentionally I gravitate towards concepts and topics that hit home or are something real we can all relate to.

I like to approach comedy from character, to have the stakes for the individuals in the story be very high.

I'm a bit of a hacker fanatic and know a fair bit about that industry and cyber crime and cyber warfare.

Surely life has taught you that a thing can be both beautiful and vile.

I'm really interested in stories about identity - who I am now versus who I used to be.

When you're making a film all by yourself, that requires you to have quite a bit of a point of view in order for anything to get done.

But this is a remarkable egg, an egg worth talking about, an egg worth crossing the street for, an egg worth writing about.

But I am happy. And happiness, I have decided, is a noble ambition.

Boredom provides a stronger inclination to write than anything.

What makes a good book and what makes a good movie are totally different things.

I made a decision to write for my readers, not to try to find more readers for my writing.

I like my zombies slow and I like my zombies stupid.

The best movies are rooted in reality.

And the process of reading is such a private one. I once came into a room where a friend of mine was reading one of my books, and he clicked his tongue impatiently and shooed me off.